CVE-2022-20757

CVE-2022-20757CVE-2022-20757

cisco / secure_firewall_threat_defense

Description

A vulnerability in the connection handling function in Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to improper traffic handling when platform limits are reached. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a high rate of UDP traffic through an affected device. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause all new, incoming connections to be dropped, resulting in a DoS condition.

Scoring

CVSS 8.6 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Last modified2026-08-11
Sourced from NVD. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.